Oswego museum posts additional newspaper transcriptions online, beginning from 1970

Oswego’s Little White School Museum has added transcriptions of local newspapers from 1970 through 1989 to its website, offering an upgraded tool for local history and genealogical researchers, the museum said.The transcriptions, drawn from the community’s weekly newspapers, the Oswego Ledger and Ledger-Sentinel, were posted last month. Museum volunteer John Etheredge completed the transcription project in October, according to a news release from the museum.The museum’s website previously featured transcriptions covering local Oswego news in roughly 20-year increments from 1849 through 1969. The files are downloadable and saved in PDF format, allowing researchers to search them for family names and topics of interest.“We posted the first batch of transcriptions back in the early 2000s, and researchers have found them a gold mine of information on everything from family histories to the many businesses that have come and gone through the centuries,” Museum Director Roger Matile said.Th